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The Pollution That Breeds: How the Great Lakes Stopped Invaders
Season 1 Episode 2036
In 1988, someone found a striped mussel the size of a fingernail in Lake St. Clair. Within a few years, zebra mussels coated pipes, boats, and the bo…
1 day, 10 hours ago
How Beach Cleanup Data Helped Canada Ban Plastic
Season 1 Episode 2035
You rinse the yogurt tub, check the number on the bottom, and drop it in the blue bin. In Canada, only about 9% of plastic waste actually gets recycl…
2 days, 17 hours ago
What Happens to Fish When Our Pills Reach the Water?
Season 1 Episode 2034
In 2001, government scientists started adding a tiny amount of the synthetic estrogen found in birth control pills to a remote lake in northwestern O…
4 days, 3 hours ago
How Did Humpback Whales End Up in New York Harbour?
Season 1 Episode 2033
This summer, people are boarding whale watching boats and seeing humpbacks feeding in sight of the Manhattan skyline. Fifty years ago, that same wate…
5 days, 3 hours ago
Plastic Is Still the Ocean's #1 Villain, with Dr. Judith Weis
Season 1 Episode 2028
Plastic keeps getting made, it never goes away, and almost none of it gets recycled. Dr. Judith Weis, Professor Emerita at Rutgers University Newark …
6 days, 3 hours ago
You Left a Public Comment. Now What?
Season 1 Episode 2031
All week, Andrew has asked listeners to comment on and show up for California's marine protected area review. Today he answers the question that come…
1 week, 1 day ago
Does Your Public Comment Count? Two Ocean Wins Show How
Season 1 Episode 2030
Earlier this year, about 65,000 people submitted comments on a federal deep-sea mining proposal near the Northern Mariana Islands, most of them oppos…
1 week, 2 days ago
The Blob Hit California's Kelp. Protected Kelp Came Back Faster.
Season 1 Episode 2029
In 2014, just two years after California finished its statewide network of marine protected areas, a marine heatwave known as The Blob settled over t…
1 week, 3 days ago
300 People, 50 Tribes, One Meeting: How California Built Its Marine Protected Areas
Season 1 Episode 2028
In 1999, California passed a law ordering the state to fix its patchwork of ocean parks. For two years, almost nothing happened, and two attempts to …
1 week, 5 days ago
California Votes on 15 MPA Changes in October. Who Got a Say?
Season 1 Episode 2027
California has a network of 124 marine protected areas, and in October the state's Fish and Game Commission takes up 15 proposals that could change i…
1 week, 6 days ago